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Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-11

In health despotisms, where the aim is
not how not to do it, but how to accom-
plish the ends aimed at with the least pos
sible circumlocution, great social evils
are attacked with a yigor which might well
find imitation in America. The Prussian
law on the subject of oleomargarine is
about ten lines in length, but it covers the
whole ground. The manufacture and sale
of imitation butter are prohibited, but
oleo may be made and sold without a pen
atty, provided it is not colored like but
ter. Violation OF this provision is pun
ishable by fine and imprisonment. In the
United States the real offense is not made
unlawful. To counterfeit butter is no
crime. but to sell the bogus article is a
crime. On the same principle the man
who makes bogus money would go free
while the one who passes it would be pun
ished.-Chicago Herald.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-11

rights il it be in his power to award them.
The labor leaders in praising President
Cleveland for his action in this case also
called attention to the large land holdings
Of aliens in this country. With q Terri
tory of 9. 800, $50 square miles, or 2,3O5.-
4sO, 600 acres, 10000, 900 acres are owned
by foreigner. With more than one-fifth
of our area under foreign ownership they
hold it lie time to consider the subject Of
alien titles with care. and without passion.
But it must not be forgotten that foreign
capital that has come to be invested in
our lands has been helpful to our develop
ment in agriculture, mining, manufactures
and facilities for transit and ~transporta-
tion. We must not be regardless OF the
good that has been done, n of the rights
that have been vested under State or Ma
tional Territorial laws. But, with due re-
to the obligations OF the past, it
certainly becomes us to take timely steps
the further extension OF European
ownership of American farming and graz
ing lands.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-11
MEXICO'S INDIAN POLICY.

Concerning the policy of Mexico in it's
treatment of Indians within it's borders.
tho Chicago Herald observes that: "Mex-
leo has but one policy in dealing with it's
hostile Indians. 1t subdues and captures
them, and then it executes such of the
prisoners - appear to have been RESPONSE
bic for the trouble. It was thought that
an exception might be made in the case OF
the Yaquis, but this was a mistaken opin-
ion. That tribe maintained q wal against
tho government troops for more than
three years, and it was not brought; into
subsection until many lives had been sac
rifced on both sides. The struggle was in
most respects something better than a
savage one. The Yaquis are a superior
and they have been a powerful tribe.
Their chief wal q man Of ability and a
soldier Of no mean order. They fought as
civilized warriors fight. but in defeat they
have been treated as barbarians. Soon
after the surrender most of the subordi-
nate leaders were executed. Chief Cajena
was spared, though he was not liberated,
and o information has been received to
the effect that he. too, has been shot in a
summary Manner. This is q policy which
may bs deemed severe, but it is reasonably
certain that Mexico will never be obliged
TO hunt down the Yaquis again."
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-11
r DON'T COUNT.

The MINER would gently remind it's even
ing contemporary that v~ituperation is not
argument nor smart sayings" proofs of
wisdom. In urging the adoption of the
new Incorporation act by the people of
Butte the Inter Mountain should endeavor
to convince them by facts and figures and
argument that the position taken by The
MINER is untenable and is not fortified by
the line OF reasoning it has pursued. It's
boyish, silly twaddle about The MINER
"being off it's base" it's charges that this
paper "misrepresented facts" that it "con-
cea led facts" and that it "often published
asfacts things which it knew to be~incorrect"
an not calculated to impress sober candid
men that the Inter Mountain is right and
THE MINER is wrong. The MINER proposes
to treat this question OF incorporation
dispassionately and calmly, believing that
the great interests OF property holders at
stake demand the question should be
soberly viewed from every standpoint.
Charges don't. count.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-11
A Knotty Point Decided.

WASHINGTON: May 6.-The Collector of
Customs at Marquette, Michigan, informs
the Treasury Department that the con-
tract for building the International Rail-
road bridge at the port Sault st Marie has
been awarded to Canadian contractors and
asks how he shall treat materials they will
bring into his districts for use in the on
struction of the bridge. Secretary May
nard has informed him in reply that the
ma chinery. materials, etc, imported by
used in United States Territory are liable to
customs duty, but that such OF the build
ing materials as may be used in the river
and which are not actually landed on
United Sta ties Territory are exempt from
payment of duty. 1t is suggested that the
contractors give a bond that none of the
materials exempt shall be landed in the
United States.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-11
CLEVELAND

The labor leaders throughout the East.
without exception, join in approving Presi'
dent Cleveland's mastery vindication OF
the Democratic homestead doctrine in the
case of Guilford Miller. 1t will remembered
by the readers OF The MINER that the re-
view of the case by President Cleveland was
published in this journal a few days ago.
From this it appears Miller was a settler
on land in Washington Territory. He took
care, when he settled, to get we'll outside
the limits of the railroad grant. Neverthe.
less, when he came to prove up, the rail.
road claimed his land on the ground that
it was comprised within the limits of a
strip OF lieu land, which the Land Office
had withdrawn from entry to make good
any deficiency in the original land grant.
Miller carried his case to the Interior De.
partment. and the Secretary cencurred
with the Attorney General in deciding
against him and in favor Of the railroad
company.
1t seems, however, that Mr.. Cleveland
thought the case worth looking into. He
ordered all the papers in the case to be laid
before him, and he went through them with
the minute attention which he bestows on
all business. On the I'd inst. he made up
his mind. He wrote q letter to the Secre-
tary of the Interior and to the Attorney
General, overruling both Of them with scant
courtesy, and stating:
You have thus far taken no action in this
matter. and it seems to me that you are in
a condition to deal with the subject in such
Il II as to protect this settler from
hardships and loss.
I suggest that o exercise the power
and authority You have in the premises
upon an equitable consideration, with
every presumption and intendment in
favor OF the settler, and in case you find
this corporation is entitled to select any
more of these lands than it has already &C
quired, that you direct it to select in lieu
of the land upon which Mr.. Miller has set.
tied other land within the limits of the in
demnity reservation upon which neither he
nor any other citizen has in good faith set
tied or made improvements.
This for once in the history OF land dis.
putes between a settler and large corpora.
tions the former was awarded his rights.
1t is not likely to be followed by the resig.
nations of high land office officials or OF
their clerks but it will awaken those
gentlemen to the fact hat they cannot
hereafter be the devoted servants OF corpo.
r~ations, and that there is 4 man in the
executive chair OF the Nation who will Gee
that the humblest citizen shall have his
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-11
MONTANA MATTERS.

A monument is to be erected to the late
Father Ravalli.
The loss. of cattle in the United States
the past winter, as stated by the Agricul-
tural Department. was 2,O36, O3O.
A blacksmith at ~Frenchtown he'd q glass
eye knocked out and his left hand sha ttered
by fooling with a dynamite cartridge.
Rev. Father Dolls and Geo. Staudaher
canvassed Billion last week soliciting sub.
scriptions Tor a Catholic church there.
Great Falls people are very much elated
over the fact that they are in Geographic
communication with the rest Of the world.
The land slide at the Bozeman tunnel ia
delaying trains, passengers and mails hav.
ing to be transferred at the scene of the
accident.
Forty thousand dollars OF Lewis &
Clarke, twenty-year, 6 per cent. bonds.
sold recently in New York at TX per cent.
premium.
The outlook for crops in Grass Valley.
Missoula county, is very good. The ground
was never known to be SO thorouphlv
soaked with moisture.
Commander in-Chief E. G. Waters. of the
Department OF Montana, g. A. R., has
issued the usual orders for the observance
OF Memorial Day, May 80.
Last week a grizzly bear killed thirty
hogs on the ranch of Cannon & Mullery.
at Gorham, on the East Side. Fresh nork
ls now at a discount on the ranch.
People who have tried the Yellowston.
1or trout this year complain of the small
size and scarcity of the fish, caused bv
the unholy practice of dynamiting.
DID: II. Rhinehart, County Superin.
tendent vi Public Schools of Yellowstone
county, on the 9th fell into q cinder nit
at the round house in Billings and disIo.
Gated his shoulder.
Inc Northern Pacific is consider;n, .
scneme to construct a railroad to diverse
rom the Park branch about twelve miles
Creek coal mines. ="
Montana Regent won the one and ma.
third mile race of the Kentnckv As.oa;s
1lon, at Lexington, Tuesday. in 1.56X +b.
same as last year. He lost the Memn ~
race the week before. p"'s
col. Broadwater has purchased ,f NJ
N~lrkendall, of Helena. a snan ot.N WI;
nares six years old. One is a blsct hu
he = Lomond, Jr, 1887, and the other .
gay ,n ny Mambrino Diamond, 2:3H Pr;os
nocKy Mountain Husbandman to L..
seaan olI lor the mean spring Weather this
season by the reflection that a wst s. Ia's
Is ene only salvation of the ,untrv 'pI NY
arc having carloads, OF s~alvat;on W.
mex Next tuesday is the pay day Of tho A.
conoa Company. The smeItar ha ne ana
running full the whole month. and I ths oeen
pany wsll pay out about SIS. oo cue SUm.
conda.-Review. '''a' oack to Ana.
M several wagon trains Of emi.ran+.
~seI Ts graders passed through Di11It an and
N Nesti Inc graders were bound d''i ion 'ast
emier avah part ,ar o. tho Territory ao odd the tbe
t.ns, Oregon md sai' %..b l;1eations in Mon
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-11
AN EDITOR KILLED.
Fatal Encounter Between Roderlck GAM
,,r,u and Colonel j. 8. hamilton.

Fatal Encounter Between Roderlck dsm-
brill and Colonel j. 8. Hamilton.
JACKSON, Miss, May 6.-The Coroner's
Jury was still engaged up to IL o'clock TO-
day investigating the killing OF Roderlek
Gambrill, editor of the Sword and Shield,
bv Colonel Jones L. Hamilton, General
Manager Of the Gulf and Ship Island Rail
road, in a difficulty occurring about 10
o'clock last night. No facts have yee de-
veIoped other than that the parties met
and began firing. The difficulty had been
feared and anticipated for some time, ow-
ing to the publication Of q personal article
BY Gambrill concerning Hamilton in his
paper some weeks ago. Gambrllis
wounds, three in number, proved fatal in a
few minutes. The result of Hamilton's
two wounds are uncertain. He now rests
comparatively easy.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-11
A Mexican Holiday,

CRY OF MEXICO. May 5.-The national
holiday commemorating the victory of
Mexican troops over the French during the
war of Intervention was celebrated to-day
with usual pomp. An imposing military
procession occupying the forenoon. passed
in review before the President, and in the
afternoon. President Diaz distributed the
prizes won by the Mexicans in the New Or
leans and Buenos Ayres expositioos. The
buildings in the city we're decorated with
national colors and foreign residents dis
played the flags Of their respective coun-
tries.
Reports from Vera Cruz the
weather intensely warm and that slight
shocks of earthquakes have been felt in diff
ferent parts OF the country.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-11
The Times Not Guilty of Breach OF
Privilege.

LONDON, May Elm the House of Com
mons to-day, Major sanderson challenged
Dillon to disprove the Times evidence.
Dillon said: Il have offered to enter into
the charges fully before a committee. 1
shall no longer exchange the lie with mem.
bers Of the House over there" (Cheers).
Henry Fowler, Liberal, said ne must de-
cline to believe English Juries infallible,
especially when a political question
a involved. He reminded the House
as a typical instance of the
gross injustice done Lord Cochrane. which
was a special jury drawn from London
traders. He asked who is better qualified
to deal with the question than q committee
selected from members of Parliament?
Parnellites did not desire to limit inquiry.
He was quite willing to extend the inquiry
SO as to include the forged letter published
by the Times. (Cheers.)
Gladstone's motion was finally rejected
by BIT to 213. Sir Edward CIarke's mo-
ton that the House decline to treat the
Times publication as a breach of privilege
vas agreed to-.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-11

cov.-nor and delegates to the Nasi or
G GovesnH. vill be chosen who will vote
tan Msvslsnd irst, last and ell the time;
TOT ~ mt to vote for Hill for secona
cho;ee. but are to stick to the sPrss'den'
straight through. .... Karna.,s
Office vonId Indicate that Hill IA reeve
the proposition favorably. II so aliiacelo 10
Of the party win go quietly to work TO %,
cure the consummation of the plan. anu anu
Cleveland will be President for q ye1.s ~
longer, when he will, in all prooao'ity' 70
succeeded by the present Governor.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-11
TEMPORARY RELIEF.
The Northern Pacific Gets q kesp'"
From the In. r.State Commerce ""
mission.

Mr.. McCaig has received from J. M ne
na1ord, Traffic Manager of the NORM
Pacific road at st. Paul, a circular V
porarily suspending the application
ton four of tn. Act to Regulate Co"~
by order OF the Interstate Com"S
Commission. 1t recites the appllcst'op.h s
the said road for authority to 1uspenu
act in referenceto transportation oet Lake
Ashland, Superior and Duluth on Min.
Superior; Minneapolis. st. Paul anu noirts
nesota Transfer in Minnesota ana = the
easterly and southerly thereirom, Ss%ound,
one hand, and points on Puges ,aces in
Portland, Oregon, and other par hand,
Washington Territory, on the o'ae. con.
on the ground that rates from wasT noiuts
petition, etc., to and from ea'u through
must be met in order to Obtain these
business as the competition frt ~ inter
sources would reduce rates ia The
mediate points below a paying o"' road
Commission therefore grants III. onty.6s
suspension for not longer than %;nvsstf
days to enable TIE Commission W iuth
gate the M 4tter, provided the IoaI bet~a1
meanwhile shall not charge mon; = chaHaa
stations on its line where more % wbf'
for q shorter than for a longer - sNorcek
shall be greater than the rates
fore the 2Oth Of April last
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-11

The following paragraph, found in an
exchange, brings to mind the Timberline
troubles last fall, which are not yet settled.
It appears 1.-THE laborers in the Anthracite
coal field of Pennsylvania threaten to
strike. and as they are compactly organ
lied, the struggle, if it comes, will be an
obstinate one. A leading grievance of
these laborers is the store order system,
by which the employers force them to take
out their wages in goods at stores owned
by the companies, charging them a big
price and making a big profit. Their wages
are small enough, anyway, but the store
order system makes slaves of them"
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-11

The election Of Judge Charles Faulkner
~ United States Senator from West Vir-
ginia settles q ~long-drawn contest which
disturbed legislation in that State nearly
al last winter. Mr.. Lucas, the appointee
OF the Governor. declares he will contest
the election in the Senate. Should he keep
his word MI. Lucas will get left" besides
advertising to the world that a man may
be q United States Senator, and at the
same time a pronounced crank.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-11
Halena,s floating non,,,..

He!ena's floating population, ot,.~
called tranps and Migrants, is on 'a tSas
crease. but suffered a small di~tas IL.
Wednesday, when Marshal Reed .Saa9tiou
twenty idle men westward on tho 'soippsd
to work for the North Pacific at sesa'road
day.-Herald. "'N
Park County was ushered into
on Tuesday by the qualifcation 'stenes
commissioners and the further na.. o. ia
OF it's organization as q county r. '.lectlng
ancs with the act Of the Legislativw. accord.
bly, OF Montana creating the same ASssu.
The marriage OF r. N. Sutherlin .,
paper, to Miss Hattie Hall. Of Cb;,.his
will take place at the home OF the h s;ssHo
srarents at Oak Park, ILL.,, Thursda.o F,ass
IL, 1887. The readers of tho way
Mountain Husbandman are cordionHko csg
vited. No cards; no presents.-HusSn ~
man.
We are aware OF the fact two avail.
do not make q summer, but twenty .""
storms certainly should be sufficient saoH
stitute one winter. But the clerk -; s ~
weather seems to have ordered Il n,,'as
wise. and 80 We are obliged almost s aa'
day to accept additional instalmentss '!
Avant Courier.
The heavy teams hauling throu,b u
CANYON from Drummond to Anaconda Lug
cut up the wet portions until the runn;,s
gears shove the mud, while on the Cahs
road the transfer has yet to be mads ~
runners on q portion where the SNOW ' y
lying, and all old Montana travellers knv,
what that meane.
The farmers OF Flint Creek Valley are M,
satisfied with the allowance for right =
way through their farms offered BY III
Drummond & P%hilipsburg road, and bss
appealed to q commission. Unless tn
commission allows q satisfactory prie
they will appeal to the courts.
Montana's scab law does not take efec
until the first of June. Under its proyi
ions every person having scabby sheep vi
have to dip them and obtain a c~erti6cat
from the Territorial Veterinary Surpeo
who will have power to quarantine the shee
into q very small area until he can certii
as to their good health.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-11
A Daniel Como to Judgment

LOUISVILLE, May 6.-John J. Coneilson,
who assaulted and cowhided Judge Reid,
causing him to suicide and who was SEN
fenced to Jail for three years, was released
on q writ of habeas corpus by Magistrate
Stofer to-day. The affair has created a SEN
sation, inasmuch as his release amounts to
a Magistrates Court overriding the decision
of the Court OF Appeals. Magistrate Stofer
decides that the old common law OF Eng
land and Virginia upon which tho impris-
was predicated does not enter into
the statutes of Kentucky. and consequently
the Imprisonment was illegal.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-11

.....,,. Of the gnhilists oemnssee 70
Liss Imprisonmsne.

.....,,. Of the gnhilists oemnssee 70
Life Imprisenmsns. !.
s. prrrrssuxe, May Sit Il reported
4hat the c,ar decided that the sentences OF
Se.th pronounced against b Nlnl's
tsmnt to assassinate him. shall 90 COZ"
muted to imprisonment at hard h00r 'of
life. .oo
In the cases Of all but two OF the o
damned. the evidence adduced at Inc z.r'A'
~ those men indicated the e1istenee OF 'ool
widely ramifyine
NrHI1lsr oRaANIz ATOMS
..,,;,, their head centers at st. Peters,
b,.a fk;efe. wilma and in Siberia. One OF
t gu S;tnssses placed on the stand during
the trial was q woman. Shs boldly 20.
m Uda she was the wife Of 81 the
dnomed men, although she admitted :ne
had never been joined in wed'ock to MN.
which she said wal an unnecessary rei's'o1s
He was at once. on TINS a.
mission, arrested and conducted to prison.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-11

The Tories of the British Parliament
propose to apply the gag rule and force
their brutal coercion measure thought
the House of Commons. No extended
debate, except upon important
amendments will be permitted. They
have the majority we'll in hand and
will use it to choke off all opposition. This
action is in harmony with the provisions
of the cruelty unjust measure.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-11

California papers note a marked develop
ment in the number of socialistic agitators
on the coast. Outrages i~nstigated by some
OF their ~ranting meetings have revived recol-
l~ections of the old Vigilance committee and
occasioned an uncomfortable feeling in GER
tain circles.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-11
Split Among Liborals Indica%.a

LONDON, May 6.-Besides the five Liberal
who voted against the Govern.
ment in the division in the Commons Yes.
terday on Clerke's amendment that the
House decline to treat the Times nuht;ca.
ton as a breach of privilege, twenty-seyen
Liberal Unionists were absent. The action
OF these Liberal Unionists is regarded "a a
lair Indication that a split in the Union;st
ranks is growing.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-11

His 10 q wild and unbridled imagination
that can torture out OF the Kentucky
Democratic platform even an implied cen
sure OF President Cleveland's %administra-
ton. The men who drafted the platform
have the courage and the boldness to ex-
press their convictions and il they found
anything in the Presidents administration
which did not comport with their ideas OF
true Democracy it would have appeared in
that instrument.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-11

The recent anti-German demonstrations
in Paris do not indicate the real sentiment
OF the French people concerning the arrest
Of Schnoebel. They were the froth OF a
few excited students and gamins whose ma
tional pride far exceeds their knowledge of
international questions, and which greatly
outweighs their judgment. The solid
thinking men of France deprecate such
noisy and unreasonsb BILE ebullitions oil tenn
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-11

For the benefit Of the Helena Herald we
will state that within a radius OF two miles
Of the center OF Butte City there are a
larger population and greater voting
strength than q be mustered in all OF
Lewis and Clarke county, and Butte hasn't
taken of it's swaddling clothes yet.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-11

The end of the Schnoebels incident is
rather hard upon the individual primarily
concerned in it. He is to be retired from
active service by his own Government as
. return Of compliments for his release
from Incarceration in Germany. 1t is not
unusual for the innocent cause of a war to
be the first sufferer by it, orfora an inventor
to DO the victim Of his own genius, al DR..
Guillotine was. But such is not usually
the fate OF the innocent occasion OF the
peaceful settlement Of a grave complication.
So that NJ. Schnoebels may console him.
self for decreased pay with the reflection
that he is a unique figure IN history.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-11

About the smallest OF all possible com
ments on the Guilford Miller decision is
that published in a New York paper, which
admits that the Presidents ruling is wise
and sound, but claims that it is misapplied
in the present case. Will it ever be possible
for the President to do an act OF which
these absurdedly disgruntled newspapers
would unreservedly approve? To stand
by . great principle and deprecate the
application Of it upon petty technical
grounds is q new development OF ''peanut
n~olikiea